Effective Leadership:
How Managers Can Build Their Competencies
to Motivate & Influence Staff to Achieve Team Objectives

Mike Pointer Keynote & Workshop

To lead and build teams, initiatives, and processes within a company, managers must embody robust leadership qualities. Successful leaders, entrusted with team management and authority, need a diverse set of skills—effective communication, critical thinking, empathy, and delegation—collectively known as 'leadership competencies.' These competencies enhance the team's commitment and trust in the leader, empowering capable team leaders to energize, motivate, and foster the development and effectiveness of their teams.

About This Topic

Emotional Intelligence: Leaders will learn how to apply emotional intelligence concepts to become more effective leaders, increasing team performance and productivity.
Problem Solving: Leaders will learn problem solving tools by identifying root causes, brainstorming solutions, and evaluating the best options and implementation.
Ethical Decision Making: Will provide leaders with guidance on how to foster cultures, settings, norms, and processes that encourage high-quality ethical decision-making within their organizations.
Resilience: Leaders will develop the ability to analyze and evaluate what has worked in the past (and what has not), and then apply that information to their future actions. Building leverage on the past to achieve future goals.
Empathy: Leaders will be equipped with the tools necessary to engage intimately and create safe spaces for mutual vulnerability between management and employees fostering loyalty, communication and retention.
Effective Communications: Leaders will strengthen their ability to build trust, and deliver positive messages. Enabling employees to successfully receive them, for excelled employee performance.
Embrace Accountability: The best leaders accept full responsibility for their teams' performance, whether it is positive or adverse. They applaud their team when they succeed and offer constructive criticism to help them improve. Leaders serve as role models, so team members are more likely to demonstrate accountability.

Keynote Takeaways

Presentation Skills: Leaders will develop the tools necessary to structure and plan meetings. Including public speaking skills, improvisation tools, and the ability to think quickly on their feet and remain confident when faced with surprises such as technical issues or unexpected questions.
Planning and Strategizing: Leaders will develop the skillsets to successfully align the timing and duties of projects consistent with the goals of the organization. These managers will gain a strong sense of what works as well as what is not working, so teams can experience positive outcomes.
Multitasking: Leaders will develop the competencies necessary to successfully handle multiple responsibilities at the same time. Whether it’s managing teammates, assigning projects, de-escalating conflicts and attending meetings, without becoming overwhelmed. These type of leader’s complete tasks on time, despite workload fluctuations.
Self-awareness: Successful leaders have a strong understanding of their own personality, habits and motives. This awareness reflects in how they lead others. Self-aware leaders understand that in order to lead successfully, they must continue to grow. Leaders will be equipped with the tools needed to identify their strengths, and areas that need improvement, leading to company growth and productivity.